theodore roosevelt, the fifth cousin of franklin roosevelt.he complicated thing is theodore roosevelt had a wonderful niece, he loved dearly, eleanor roosevelt, and then franklin married theodore's niece. franklin would call theodore cousin theodore but then called him uncle theodore. >> i feel the need for a family tree. [laughter] >> distant cousins. franklin and theodore. >> set a stage for this large and bustling family. very quickly, edith determines it was just not going to work for them. a sketch she drew one week after moving into the white house. a plan for the second floor that shows how very crowded it was to have the family and workspace there. what did she do? >> she picked up on harrison's place in the white house and got together with a very influential firm, mckim, mead & white. there is a big back story here. to cut to the chase, mckim decided he was, as she put it, "tired of living over the store." she wanted to separate the living areas with the public areas. the downstairs was renovated and most people really liked it. the

roosevelt." no locker young where in political office and no one would have realized about 10 months later he would have the catastrophe of his polio attack which crippled his legs but turned out not to cripple his career but that is another story and i will leave it there if you have questions will be glad to take them. [applause] >> i hope you all appreciate it is to hear somebody speak for over one hour with no notes. well done. [applause] if you have questions please come up over here at the microphone end to speak clearly and stanley weintraub will answer your question. >> thank you for a magnificent talk. i look forward to reading the book. young fdr was under the hierarchy of three heavyweight isolationists and yet he was not. what was said about his upbringing that led him to be an internationalist not the isolationist? >> john franklin partly because he understood the see that the two functions the isolationist did not protect us at all because the country in the world had changed and co

the mother was an eleanor roosevelt democrat. she loved eleanor roosevelt.t the ability to live with furniture that's made there. carter makes his own furniture in his home. very spartan and warm and pleasant and emphasis on gardens and outdoor life. the bringing of the natural world. i can't emphasize enough to listeners what a special place that part of the mid hudson is in duchess county and the great love and friendship of franklin and eleanor from shared neighbors, shared friends, shared topography and knowing all of the little back roads and things together was a big part of the happiness. >> did she use that to get way? >> yeah. >> this is the own space to conduct business. val kill was her home and office. eleanor was very rarely alone in value kill. he did a very extraordinary job in giving you the sense, the feel that eleanor had and how much she loved it. eleanor was always surrounded by hordes of people at val kill that she would invite. there would be neighbors, dignitaries, friends, reporters, painters, there would be performers, there would be

roosevelt lapped that up. it was just the kind of thing that appealed to fdr--off the books, circumventing his own bureaucracy, something private, clandestine. a spy thriller kind of thing appealed to him. so he took money out of his own white house budget to set up the john franklin carter ring. has this money transferred into the state department, where presumably it's there to buy reports about foreign--foreign governments. and then carter operates throughout the war, directly reporting to fdr and the oval office. c-span: how many people did he have working for him? >> guest: very small group, only about 12. but the interesting thing is that we have an oss that doesn't necessarily know about the john franklin carter ring. we have john franklin carter who doesn't necessarily know about the astor ring. c-span: and you say that fdr didn't write very much down. >> guest: fdr, by his character and temperament, was ideally suited for--for secret warfare. he loved to trade in secrets. he was a master manipulator o

nellie would say she never really liked edith was roosevelt -- edith roosevelt. there was competition between them that pulsed. when they got back to washington -- i wish i knew more about what exactly happened but they seem women whoen two struck odds. you had these two men who were very close but their intimate families, not so much. there was not a strong underpinning of the tr, will taft relationship once the two women got in close proximity. it had something to do with cincinnati versus new york with edith roosevelt being from an aristocratic family and helen taft of being from cincinnati. >> we learned during the edith roosevelt program that mrs. roosevelt had regular salon sessions with all of the cabinet wives which was required attendance. what was the effect of those on helen taft and her own thinking about how she might approach the job as first lady? >> edith did have these weekly meetings. they met in the white house library once a week. she thought they were a little too gossipy or the topic is a conversations bored her. she made it known to the pre

so they were friends with franklin roosevelt, and roosevelt, of course, used them both. and of course, they went on to serve president eisenhower and kennedy and so on. one of the things a reader has to do is drop a belief about democrats in one -- [inaudible] and republicans being another. because their idea of progressivism is about as liberal as you get in the 1920s and '30s. there was a right-wing that makes today's tea party look like a bunch of gentle -- [inaudible] it's different time. that's what fascinated me. was trying to get inside their heads. >> is there anything today commemorating the houses where they lived? do we still know where some of the places are? >> we know where that are. were. most of them are gone. the house of truth still exists on 19th street. it's being rehabbed by its current owners. it's going to be kind of a new seem. >> thank you very much for your time. >> we now have secular norm instead of theological norm that govern our acceptance or rejection of the ways in which a god of gods or god escaladed can speak to people and what impact o

it was when roosevelt got started. almost immediately, the more than great realized the lengths he was willing to go. at the beginning, roosevelt didn't understand how far he was going to go. the dupont family and the ones that set up the american liberty league. that was successful because they have unlimited amounts of money. there were so popular, they were not able to stop it. they began to finance right-wing think tanks. they have been successful to the university of chicago economics department and notable fraud such as milton freed man. the idea of neoliberalism is there should be massive, selective tax cuts. margaret thatcher it is there is no alternative. of course that's absurd. there was an alternative. we have to connect the dots to understand what is going on today. i read the chronicle. so what i've done is put together a montage of the murder of public sector, which is going on everyday. in fact all of the public sector is in body shape. public libraries, parks from the municipal to the national level. o

if he had a president lindbergh instead of a president roosevelt, i think history would've turned out quite differently. i doubt that he would've made the preparations that roosevelt made, and i doubt that after japan attacked the united states that he would have oriented toward toward europe rather than keeping it focused just on asia. so in that sense, franklin roosevelt made a big difference. >> foreign policy and 20th century presidential leadership, later today at 7:30 p.m. eastern. part of american history tv. this weekend on c-span3. >> elizabeth bradley and lauren taylor are next on booktv. the two authors question why compare to all other industrialized nations americans spend more and receive less from our health care system. this is about one hour and 10 minutes. >> hi, everybody, and welcome. so, welcome to the special event hosted by the institution for social and policy studies new health care center. we are here to have a conversation about elizabeth bradley and volunteers asked what her new book, "the american health care paradox." there's no shortage of health care in

so this was roosevelt. in the iron is if you look back on the new deal there were no constitutional amendments that were part of this new deal revolution. of course the constitution says this is how you're supposed to change it. you are supposed to change it by passing and adopting amendments. there were no of amendments in the rep to share new deal. the only amendment in that timeframe was to say the president can only have two terms after roosevelt had multiple terms. it was all done by reinterpretation or by workarounds and i will talk in a moment about how we do that today. hoover speech is quite. hoover starts with the first 10 amendments of the constitution and he says what this reminds us of is one of the main purposes of the constitution is to protect the people from their own government. it's the exact opposite of the roosevelt view. the rest of his speeches about federalism and he says we have this great system of federalism. checks and balances, balances of power making sure nobody can get behind

as the subtitle says, from lincoln to roosevelt. and what i'm looking for is a man with a story, and john hay's story is incredibly dimensioned. and he himself was a storyteller. he was one of the great literary figures of his time, as well as one of the great public figures. i guess what really tipped my hand to dig deeper to john hay was when i discovered not only was john hay and -- at abraham lincoln's bedside when he died, he was with mckinley at his deathbed. i realized that in history, and to a lot of historians and to a lot of people i talk to, like two hands on an accordion. there is lincoln on one hand, you roosevelt on the other. you open the and a part and all of the chapters of american history fall out and seeing very beautifully in between. as bill said, you have as with all responsible biographies, you have a vehicle to tell the history of the times. john hay's fingerprints were on every bit of that history from the civil war through to his death in 1905, the first 50 years of the republican party. and then i also re

that he said you know roosevelt ewan wilson really have the same objectives here. you have so many the same principles and plans that you believe in. you are really so much alike. why do you attack him every day? roosevelt thought and he said i think that's true. i guess wilson is just the weaker version of me. [laughter] >> wilson was the president of princeton university before he was president so did the ivory tower environment affect him in a positive or negative way and how did it help with his governing? >> the ivory tower princeton help them in a positive way very much because he was trying to tear down the ivory tower. woodrow wilson was the poor son of a presbyterian minister who had the good fortune to go north to college from georgia and the carolinas where he grew up, virginia where he was born. he went to princeton in new jersey. there he found a very exclusive campus. he resented it as a graduate and he came to resent it as a professor there. he then became president of the college and it was at this time he decided now i have the ability to change wh

really, it was really started by eva roosevelt. of course he was affectionately known as teddy so doris kearns goodwin how did he start the progressive era and what propelled him to act? and what were his successes that are still with us today? >> i may indeed call him teddy even though he didn't like to be called teddy that but i think he has lost that data with history so teddy roosevelt came into power at a time when really the aspects of the industrial age had not been dealt with since the civil war. there was no real worker's compensation. women and children were exploited in the factories. huge monopolies were heating up, the gap to train the rich and the poor had grown wider sounded familiar to situations of today. additional revolution may have produced an economic change. even though he was a conservative when he started in certain sense and certainly a republican when he started he realized republican party would not able to continue as a major force and a majority for some less it began to deal with these problems of the

roosevelt loved him. he had total access, a unique kind of situation. >> what was his most -- if you can classify what was his most significant contribution to the war effort? >> his relationship with winston churchill. churchill did not want to invade western friends and go directly at the germans. as i show in the book, he played a critical role in england working with churchill to eventually persuade him. happened in pteron eventually to finally say let's go into overload and that was a very important part of our history. >> thank you very much for your time. >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see here on line. type the author or book title in the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click search. you can share anything you see on booktv.org easily by clicking share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the form that. booktv streams live online 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. in honor of the labor department at 100th an

roosevelt's funeral.hen did mamie eisenhower -- >> much later. >> there would not have been a huge opportunity. probably not expected. that is a tough one. >> i do not know. >> i did not believe they had any pets. >> no. >> actually, she was interested in health care. she believed, she urged harry to increase funding to the national institute for health. you can look at the numbers in a second term. that budget goes up. she thought people should have better health care. but he proposed universal health care. >> one of the reasons he was so unpopular. >> i want to tell you about a book. to a question about bess truman's portrait. it has been published by our partners in the series, the white house historical association. it has all of their portraits and biographies of each of them. there -- you see the little yellow bubble. it is a special edition for first ladies. if you're interested in this, it is a global on our website at c- span.org/firstladies. her white house portrait was done. we have a video tha

regarding wilson, taft, and roosevelt? ?hank you. >> go ahead. >> well, -- 900,000 votes. >> he if mighty well. he was extremely important. i think he was more than just paprika in the big stew of that election. which was a really fascinating -- you know, there was an election really of ideas. and there was so much progressivism in the air. it becomes extremely important in wilson's life later on. he's one of the people who will be arrested under the wilson law, the alien and is and sedition laws. he was delivering the speech said i know i'm going to be arrested for this. and now i'll tell you. i have gone through the feature -- speech he gave. i keep looking for the sedition. i can't find it. he was basically telling the people some workers that this was a capitalist war, and that they did not have to be cannoned toker in it. and for that, he was arrested. he was put in jail, he was found guilty and went to the supreme court. they came down against him 9-0. he was in prison. it will tell you a lot about wilson. the war is n

roosevelt did social security? you know about that elderly man who said i don't want the government fully with my medicare. do they know if johnson put the federal program? but to remember some of the words, every member some of the rhetoric. roosevelt said nothing to fear but fear itself, and kennedy said ask not what you country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. reagan said it's morning in america and the pride is back to they remember these inspirational talks. and they need to be -- they need heroes. they want u.s. and for the moment kennedy and reagan among presidents are the ones who fill that bill. it will be quite interesting to see what evolves over the next 50 years. i'm very selfish. i say i wish i could come back and a couple hundred years and see what's happened to the country. but even my randy yossi doesn't extend that far. [laughter] >> ladies and gentlemen, please join me in thanking robert dallek. [applause] >> thank you. >> thank you so much for coming. we will see you again.

but the kids didn't think of him as president roosevelt the thought of him as dr. roosevelt. i always thought that this was a poignant story because roosevelt could have had therapy and rehabilitation anywhere that he wanted to as a wealthy man. but he kept going back to the springs in order to give an example to the children. i always thought that was a wonderful story. but eleanor felt it gave him an empathy with the country coming and that helped make him a better president. another quick point about roosevelt. she realized since he couldn't get out of the country since he wanted to he relied on his wife to do it for him. she became what they called his eyes and years so she traveled around the country and would go to places first ladies had not gone before. she went to migrant camps come in and cities, the coal mines there's a famous case she went down to the mine shaft in pennsylvania wearing a miners outfit and she would report back to franklin. so she was serving almost as a pollster and a reporter and she found a way to also connect with him as president because they

roosevelt. and i thought, 'it's a--it's all said. but i've written a great deal about intelligence and maybe i could combine the two,' and there was nothing in this list of 600 books in the catalog about fdr and intelligence. my--my reaction was, 'joe, you are either brilliant and you've thought of something that nobody else could think of or you're a fool and you're wasting your time because there's no story.' c-span: so in the end, what--when did you start to see a--a story that had never been told? >> guest: well, i started going down, brian, to hyde park, to the roosevelt archives. and it--i started virtually from ground zero. but as i started plowing through the papers of george marshall, the papers of bill donovan and fdr's papers, i realized there were a lot of unst--untold stories and i was very encouraged to proceed. c-span: let's pick one of those names, bill donovan. who was he? >> guest: bill donovan was an authentic hero of world war i, a congressional medal of honor winner, subsequently a vastly successful wall street l

roosevelt. on december 21, 1941, two weeks after america was attacked, as president roosevelt said, a day which will live in infamy, franklin roosevelt delivered this message. president roosevelt said, sincere and faithful men and women are asking themselves this christmas, how can we light our trees? how can we give our gifts? how can we meet and worship with love and with uplifted spirit and heart in a world at war? a world of fighting and suffering and death. a day, we pause even for even for christmas day, in our urgent labor of arming a decent humanity against the enemies which beset it. how can we put the world aside as men and women put the world aside in peaceful years to ejoice in the birth of christ? president roosevelt goes on, he says, looking into the days to come, i have set aside a day of prayer and in that proclamation i have said, quote, the year 1941 has brought upon our nation a war of aggression by powers dominated by arrogant rulers whose selfish purpose is to destroy free i

he thought that he could pull off diplomatic resolution if he met roosevelt and person. if he promised too much at home to the military he could prepare in the meantime because you never know but you have to allow me to see roosevelt and say hawaii or alaska. he thought and the military thought that would happen until quite late, until september, mid-september, even early on sober. and then they sort of noticed the americans were not going to come to the table. that is when he panicked and left. so china was central. your second question was about tripartite. [inaudible] >> they were mesmerized by the german excesses. not that they understood the legal aspects are nazi ideology or embraced it because the japanese were really second-class citizens. the japanese themselves wanted to be the people who -- the original german didn't know the truth of hitler's predicament. that was not so much embracing the ideology but as martial aspects of the nazi success and also the fact that the shock factor in europe especially after barbarossa, the people were just, japanese casually t

and i think teddy roosevelt was right people ought to be. on the work they do. your thoughts on what a living wage should be in your area. around eleven to twelve dollars when we're looking. we're looking for fifteen we're asking fifteen in a unit that's good and a union that's that is spectacular what do you have to say to those people who say that forcing big profitable companies to pay a living wage is somehow wrong. i feel like it's complete nonsense i mean we work so hard. we need all the work. has the right. we are the people that are making all these profits for these people in so people feel like we're not liable to those profits but it really not bear who's there to do it to make things happen who's there to make sure that the customer is satisfied with the service so we're going to say oh they don't believe we're bad we deserve it we do we go to everybody didn't know goes to work and works hard currency and everything and they can at the job because it's all they know that's all they can do so that's what we you know so it's like is nonsense to me beca

this is roosevelt's big thing. we need more regulation. they need economic regimentation. and i have to say if you look at areas of our lives and areas of state and local policy being taken over, that is a serious problem. the last issue that we think is very much of then and now comparison is the constitutionalism. in this part of the book we found great speeches one given by herbert hoover on the constitution in 1935 and one given by franklin roosevelt on the constitution of 1937 surtout years apart. it's just a classic compare and contrast. roosevelt begins by pointing out that the constitution opens with the expression we the people. he said this reminds us the constitution is the people's document. it's not a lawyer's document it is a people's document done by the people and for the people and what that means is according to roosevelt when the constitution gets a little antiquated a little out of date getting this on the 150th. they changed that in any way they want and accommodate. people ask if that is unconstitutional. we shouldn't have to worry about that. the of

>> guest: he flew from roosevelt field to la bourget. c-span: and roosevelt field is located where? >> guest: long island. c-span: long island. and la bourget is in paris. >> guest: in paris. c-span: a--and... >> guest: and... c-span: go ahead. >> guest: and it took him 33 hours. c-span: did he stop anywhere along the way? >> guest: no. c-span: and it--had any woman flown--in 1927, that would've been, i guess--had any woman flown over the atlantic at all? >> guest: oh, no. no. c-span: not in any planes? >> guest: no. c-span: 'cause somewhere in your book, you say that back when flying was really active, in the early days, that 95 percent of the passengers were men. >> guest: yes. c-span: why was that? >> guest: well, because w--women were afraid of flying, so one of the reasons why--but--but this comes later, a few years later, when--when airlines started to come into being, they decided that they had to give publicity to women so that women would begin to think that they could, in fact, fly and that men would realize that if women flew, they shouldn't be afraid of airplanes. c-span

roosevelt said he would put "first things first."ther way of saying this is that countries in a depression were not going to "let the international tail wag the domestic dog." under really serious pressure, the gold standard collapsed. schoumacher: 1944. the battles were still long and fierce. as the allies swept across europe, there was no longer any real question that germany would be defeated. but there were grave concerns about whether the countries of the world could recover from the economic ravages of the war. in july 1944, world economic leaders met here in bretton woods, new hampshire. it was at this hotel that representatives of 44 countries met for 22 days to create a blueprint for a new world economic order. but why would that system, so carefully crafted here, eventually collapse? dr. edward bernstein was chief technical advisor to the u.s. delegation at the bretton woods conference. mr. bernstein, what did the delegates who assembled here hope to accomplish at bretton woods? we had two different objectives. one was to g

and i think teddy roosevelt was right people a lot of. the work they do. your thoughts on what a living wage should be in your area. around eleven twelve when we look at. we are looking for fifteen we're asking fifteen in a unit. that's good and the union that's that is spectacular what do you have to say to those people who say that forcing big profitable companies to pay a living wage is somehow wrong. i feel like it's complete nonsense i mean we've worked so hard. we need all the. help these companies thrive. we are the people that are making all these profits for these people in some people who like we're not liable to those profits but if we're not there who's there to do it who's there to make things happen who's there to make sure that the customer is satisfied with the service so for them to say oh well they don't believe that we deserve it we do we go to everybody that i know goes to work and work hard for us in everything that they can at the job because it's all they know it's all they can do so that's what we do you know so it's like it's nonse

what was the missing piece and why did roosevelt who picked taft miss it? >> it's so interesting.ould have thought that he would have seen that taft who he adored, thought taft had better personality. what he had not seen was that taft didn't like politics. you can't be president if you don't love it. teddy loved it every moment of every day. he couldn't wait to be in the center action. his daughter said he wanted to be the bride at the wedding and the course at the funeral and the baby at the baptism. all of the frustration that our modern presidents have, he would say, why, i love the presidency. and taft didn't like political fighting, didn't like to give speeches. he was -- he liked to be a deliberate person wanted to be on the court. that's what everybody said about fdr always a matter of temperament. >> dickerson: temperament question. you mentioned that president wilson was our on phd president now if you want to knock down candidate you call them academic, you suggest that they're detached. how did this man from the world of academia learn to use power, where did that come

when the japanese beat the russians in 1905, president roosevelt praised them. and the attack on port arthur was a kind of pearl harbor of that time and it succeeded. >> they were not americans being attacked. >> americans are better than the russians at fighting war. >> the soviets don't make as much of a myth about the surprise of stealth nature of the attack. it was so dramatic in the fact america was attacked on their soil, even though it was a heavily populated island with japanese. it became part of the american psyche and is now a symbol of real significance. >> what extent does that play into america's myth? john dower, who didn't condone the attack, but his analysts was one of the reasons americas were so shocked and outraged was that it played into so many western movies of the treacherous indians who are attacking without warning the brave pie pioneers. in his analysis, is it "war without mercy" and that is one reason why it is such a strong myth: it is a treacherous attack. was it meant to be treacherous or was that a screw up? >> there is a huge deb

you're the inevitable successor to franklin roosevelt. and as it turns out, harry truman finds him in a role like andrew johnson after the american civil war. somebody who is dropped into this natural succession, and -- >> unfortunately we could probably go for another hour. we all have 150 questions. we have one minute left. you get 15 seconds and we'll give our panelists 45. >> okay. this is for david. do you recall personally speaking with your grandfather about the norman -- normandy invasion, particularly about its potential for failure. >> jean edward smith's help on this. from a grandchild's perspective, world war ii was a subject that he left alone. as my father put it once, he would accept criticism on anything regarding his presidency, but he could not really bring himself to revisit the controversies of world war ii, i think because so much was at stake. if you think of all the lives that depended on the decisions that were made then, and this reflected in the character of the eisenhower library and the roosevelt library. this

when the roosevelt came into office, it was obviously not very cordial. there was some discussion about not having the traditional night before the inauguration dinner with the roosevelt because of how much hostility there was during the campaign. mrs. roosevelt became the first lady and she became the honorary president of the girl scouts. lou resumed an administrative position of president of the girl scouts and described mrs. roosevelt as very cordial. the hoover's were very interested in flying. they had been friends with the lou had spoken at an event where amelia ehrhardt was being honored. >> while lou hoover was promoting volunteerism, she try to put things in front of congress, like the hoover dam. they do not sound very republican from this perspective. why were they not affected in -- effective in addressing what was happening? >> i think there was an issue of scale. people do not understand how huge or how long this would last for. hoover tries to do several things, he tries to do it in a complementary way to what lou is doing through voluntee

and read letters from the roosevelt, truman, adelaide stevenson, humphrey, a candidate, kissinger, a william f. buckley, jr., the clinton, al gore gorby doll, jacqueline kennedy and naturally with his interest of american history sammy davis, jr., a and mick jagger. [laughter] to a detractor to accused arthur of being a communist sympathizer he said your first letter was a product of misunderstanding for you to really provide if not i can only send you to the nearest psychiatrist. but i should note arthur had a keen appreciation for andrew jackson and jack daniel's. as is also appreciated arthur did not believe white wine was done to the day given the difficulties of the afternoon. he is the author of terror across and teeeighteen that co-editor of his father's struggle. his films won two emmys serving as the world director of the policy is to share am publisher of the journal of a speech writer and foreign policy adviser for'' well also the author of factive creation that received the harry s. truman book award. our friend tom brokaw will play a key role in this discussion in the fu

four freedoms it was roosevelt who began to talk about access to health care as really needed right germany had you know as a health care since the ninety's and other business scandinavian countries too but when roosevelt put those four freedoms forward in nine hundred forty one and then eleanor roosevelt came forward is the chair of the committee that developed the universal declaration of human rights this was a formative period in mandela's life and it is not coincidental that when the universal declaration of human rights was honored at its fiftieth anniversary it was nelson mandela who went and gave a great address to the united nations in which he broke at length about that right to health care so adam why would republicans suggest that we don't have a right to health care i don't understand it's. been on your show before tom when you asked me that exact exact same question i can't tell you why they would i think that in this day and age there should be a right of every person to have health care just as it's stated in the. clip that you showed i think with the point in in our

here's a dedication of roosevelt. on the left, who painted the murals in the social security building with her husband and steph an kennedy. it's been a privilege to meet these people. just recently, i found this statue of roosevelt. is over looks oslow harbor. they revere roosevelt, because of what they learned from the new deal about how to build a civil society. they didn't get rid of it, they expanded it. just like other scandinavian countries are consistently rated as the happiest in the world. the new deal continues to live on there. thank you. [applause]. across america, cities and towns, homes and businesses all depend upon one basic resource. modern civilization and life itself would be impossible without it. woman: okay, so today, we're going to look at how do we get our water? narrator: and today, it's a matter of simply turning on the tap. so often, we forget about the value of water. water is a commodity that is essential to life. 100 years ago, it would have been hard to imagine turning on the tap water.

roosevelt knew who this. weekly cabinet wives met with her to discuss various matters of concern in the administration names cannot. if a man and woman were misspeaking, the first lady send an age to call first on the man advising him if the affair didn't stop that he and the woman wouldn't be allowed at the white house. the rejection from the entertainment ceremonies for the head of state. except with one man. he was the direct senate of lafayette the diplomatic community here. he was born from here and he was the lead advisor to the french embassy and in fact because i'm of anderson kill myriad in cincinnati. he was a womanizer to say the least. he pursued women for no shame. even though alice roosevelt but she confessed in her diary at last said she no longer has lost for me. at last she ran away with the life of another diplomat. you might be surprised that he didn't meet as mrs. roosevelt would have thought. he was sent to russia and he was -- she went up in france and he became one of the most disrespec

fdr had the roosevelt revolution. the roosevelt recession.rn era, as presidents -- firstre visible radio, then through film -- as becoments have almost adjunct members of our family because of television and the internet, the constant exposure they have, it is only increased that tendency. the greatest single danger to presidents and one reason why second terms tend to be dreary earier than the first is a danger of exposure. host: a caller from new mexico on our line for independents. he says inst of all, his past term that jobs had been his number one issue. the aca has been his number one issue. i wonder if he has ever had a real job. in his secondate term on anything? that's an interesting -- i'm not sure. i don't work for the white house. have heard the president offered to negotiate on a number of things. take something very specific, very concrete. it will be interesting to see what happens on this proposed extension of unemployment. while all this debate is going on, there are real-life people out there who are hurting badly. in some w

washington had met with theodore roosevelt. on june 6, the day after the fifth tea, lou sent an invitation. she comes and they have a tea. the congressman publicizes this and it gets a lot of attention. everything seems ok. a week later, the representative hosts a musical and tea. it is a fundraiser for the naacp. all of a sudden, the southern delegations and the southern state legislatures realize that this is getting out of hand. and, it is all because mrs. hoover had an african-american at the white house. the entire summer, you have sent -- censure and threats from the southern states and members of congress to censure mrs. hoover. it becomes quite a brouhaha. >> it is a precarious time for african-americans in the united states. how did it affect their future over the next few years over that brouhaha? >> in that time, the republican party was the party of civil rights and the party of african- americans. herbert hoover, in 1928, had broken into -- harding made a slight inroad to it -- but hoover was trying to balance expe

and if anyone knows a thing about theodore roosevelt, jr.that was sort of foreshadowing for his life in europe at d-day, the oldest man at dd. the only father-son team to be at d-day. he got a bloody nose at our. i do know tha that cabbage withn intuitive experience later in life but there's some benefits to the game of football. the president that i'm more interested in is woodrow wilson, that guy that theodore roosevelt ran against later and lost. and woodrow wilson before he was president a lot of people don't know he was actually a football coach. he helped coach the team at westerly and princeton. and this controversy over football today, the war on football come it didn't start the day before yesterday. in the 19th century woodrow wilson debated the subject to big audiences. should we encourage the game of football? and he took the affirmative position. and his recent was that comment and let me get my trusty notes here cannot misquote president wilson. but he said, he thought football developed more moral qualities in any of the game

theodore roosevelt was his then very unlikely successor, so it was roosevelt who toured the great presentation in 1901 at the corcoran and heard the spiel about how the plan was approved by washington but substantially approved further from the chicago world's fair held eight years before. roosevelt's support was, of course, key. the architects wooed him further with a stylish renovation of the white house interior turning a fringed and buttoned place into a sleek pseudo-french palace. the east room was patterned on a room in the palace of -- [inaudible] while the dining room at the opposite end of the hall imitated a georgia began house complete with stuffed animal heads actually bought from a decorator in new york and not bagged by teddy. [laughter] i leaned a little on the house because it was contemporary in taste with the one we enjoy tonight. the white house ghei the new president -- gave the new president a sort of wright, international, chic-looking stage that he wanted for the progressive administration yet to come. the mcmillan plan, ultimately more a sketch than a detailed plan, was

fdr had the roosevelt revolution. then the roosevelt recession. in the modern era, as presidents become more visible -- first radio, then through film -- as presidents have almost become adjunct members of our family because of television and the internet, the constant exposure they have, it is only increased that tendency. i think probably the greatest single danger to presidents, and one reason why second terms tend to be drearier than the first is the danger of overexposure. host: a caller from new mexico on our line for independents. good morning. caller: first of all, he says in his past term that jobs had been his number one issue. that clearly is not true. the aca has been his number one issue. i wonder if he has ever had a real job. please correct me if i'm wrong. my question is, will he negotiate in the second term on anything? guest: that's an interesting -- i'm not sure. i don't work for the white house. i have heard the president offer to negotiate on a number of things. specific,hing very though, very concrete that everyone can get th

roosevelt and tell mely taft, and, ida. they each had choices to make. there were narrower choices for women than today. roosevelt came from a family where her father had been wealthy, lost his shipping business, and became an alcoholic. she lived near teddy when she was a young girl. they had to move to more modest homes. forever after she drew a productive curtain around herself. they loved each other. they were boyfriend and girlfriend through college. they had a fight in his soft more year in college. he fell madly in love with a beautiful young girl from boston. he married alice to the devastation ofth edith. he thought he would never love again. the light had gone out of his life. he married her. it was a strong marriage. all she wanted from the marriage and her first ladyship was to give companionship and strength and a sanction ware to her ever-restless husband. she said when he became first lady she had no intention of being a public person. she wasn't going give her view for the politics. what only mattered is be in the newspaper twice. married

that is a great contrast with you to roosevelt.that campaign of 19 12 as the -- 1912 is the best we've ever had by far. what you get is really a debate of political philosophies between these two men. >> lee is watching us from durango, colorado. guest: thank you for taking my call. i have a question about the bill that was so important to ellen wilson and did such a wonderful thing for the city of washington dc. i would like to comment on youth wilson. -- edith wilson. she was more of a hindrance than a help. joseph, a major advisor to the president, wrote numerous letters during his illness and they were discovered unopened until after her death. >> thank you so much for your call. she asks about ellen's alley bill. >> when they came to the white house, ellen felt that as long as she was in the white house, not a place for she particularly wanted to be, she would use her position to do as much good as she could. she connected with a group called the national civic federation that had been around for 10 years or so. they were very

eleanor roosevelt, john kenneth galbraith, many liberals who wanted to make clear that liberalism did not mean communism. it meant -- it's a social change that was within the democratic process. and that's why my father in 1949 wrote the book "vital center" which is a kind of landmark book talking about how democracy is the centerpiece for his philosophy as between the extreme of communism on the one hand and fascism on the other. and i think that philosophy became such a part of his life that if you read the letters that he had with various democratic candidates starting with adelaide stevenson and john f. kennedy and people, bill clinton, walter mondale, i can list practically every presidential candidate on the democratic ticket for those 60 years, they all turned to him because they realized he was kind of serving as a kind of liberal conscience to that generation of political people. and the a way they needed -- in a way they needed his validation to be able to appeal to the liberal constituency that he tended to represent. >> but a hard-headed kind of liberalism. >> that's right

the president most closely associated with football is roosevelt, and roosevelt's interest in football was highlighted in 1905 because they had such a brutal season. more players killed on saturday in 190 # 5 from football hits than all last season. roosevelt had a white house summit, not far from here, on football where he wanted to have the big schools pledge for cleaner games, to follow the rules. after that 1905 season, it was -- it was a microcosm of football, the game evolved. that's the message in the book and war on football. however bad the situation seems in football now and people are upset about safety, football evolves, adopts, and overcomes. after that 1905 season, we got the neutral zone, they banned the idea of forward motion. used to have offensive players get a head start before the defense before the snap. you see that a little more in a rein that leagues still. there were major changes in football. i think if football can survive the introduction of the forward pass, it can certainly survive, you know, the fact that we're going to flag runningbacks for lowering thei

and the president is most closely associated with football is theodore roosevelt.and theodore roosevelt's interest in football was highlighted in 1905 because they had such a brutal season. there were more players killed on one saturday in 1905 from football hits and were killed all last season. theodore roosevelt held a white house summit not far from here on football where he wanted to have the big schools pledge for a clean again, to follow the rules. and after that 1905 season, it was sort of a microcosm of football. the game evolves. that's the message of my book. that's the message of "the war on football." however, bad the situation seems in football now and people are upset about safety, football always evolves. it always adapts and overcomes. after that 1905 season, we got the forward pass. the neutral zone. they then the idea of forward motion. so there were major changes in football. and i think a football can survive the introduction of the forward pass, it certainly can survive the fact that we're going to flight running backs are lowering their head i

especially if you note roosevelt in person. so he promised too much at home to the military, you can prepare for this in the meantime because you never know and you have to allow me to do this and he thought that -- and americans thought that this would happen until september. until mid-september, even early october. and then they sort of notice this but americans are not going to come to any resolution and so they knew it. >> your second question is about how -- what is that? [inaudible question] >> i think they were mesmerized by this. not that it wasn't a dangerous and legal aspect because the japanese were relegated to second-class citizens in the japanese themselves wanted to be the people who did know the truth of hitler's harassments. so that was not so much embracing the ideology, -- that was part of the natural aspects of this and also the fact that the factors in europe, especially after this, that the japanese commonly thought that southeast asia is really ripe for plucking. and if we could push the regime to hand ov

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